The history of pot

December 6, 2012

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An unidentified Canabis Buyers' Club customer (right) lights up a marijuana cigarette for Dennis Person (behind bar), the establishment's director, on May 2, 1996 in San Francisco. Buyers suffering from AIDS, cancer or conditions with symptoms that marijuana is know to alleviate can purchase the outlawed drug with a doctor's note. In the foreground is a bowl of marijuana and marijuana brownies.

JOHN MABANGLO/AFP/Getty Images

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An unidentified Canabis Buyers' Club customer (right) lights up a marijuana cigarette for Dennis Person (behind bar), the establishment's director, on May 2, 1996 in San Francisco. Buyers suffering from AIDS, cancer or conditions with symptoms that marijuana is know to alleviate can purchase the outlawed drug with a doctor's note. In the foreground is a bowl of marijuana and marijuana brownies.